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From: khera@juliet.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera)
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Subject: Re: Various questions...
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Date: 8 Mar 89 17:47:07 GMT
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In article <2174@tank.uchicago.edu> phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
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>I am just about to go out and buy myself a NeXt computer---withou having seen
>one yet. I want to use it as a vanilla UNIX for a while, and slowly get familiar
>with Next peculiarities. I would therefore appreciate information about:

this is absolutely silly. you are about to go spend several thousand
dollars on a machine you have never seen nor used. would you go out and buy
a car based solely on the manufacturer's description--from a brand new
company?  i strongly suggest that you spend some significant amount of time
with the machine before purchasing one.  i was very impressed with what i
read about the machine and the demonstrations i saw.  when i actually sat
down and spent a couple of hours working on the machine, i had some serious
doubts about owning one at its current state (i tested it running version
0.8 of the system). i really like the hardware and the user interface, but
it needs some serious work in the software speed department. i am sure that
it will take some getting used to-- i have used suntools, X11, and MGR on
sun's and i like the MGR model the best. the NeXT interface is a bit too
Macintosh like for my tasts.

just be sure you know what you are getting when you buy the machine. don't
trust the sales hype. but you should know that, being in the UofChicago
Graduate School of Business ;-)

>Software:
>	(1) Can I write simple UNIX C programs (i.e. using stdio.h), and run them
>	from some sort of command line?

yes. there is a shell window you can run in.

>Any information would be appreciated.                   
>
>ivo welch	phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu


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